file time modifier

ftm is a tool to modify creation time and last modified time of a file or directory. Especially for Windows. Time units that could be modified as below:

year	month	day	hour	minute	second
30	360	10950	262800	15768000	946080000

Notes : first row is unit of time, second row is maximum number allowed.

Time attribute allowed to be modified:

last modified time	creation time

Install

Download using wget from GitHub release

exe:

wget https://github.com/notoookay/file_modify/releases/download/latest/ftm.exe

jar:

wget https://github.com/notoookay/file_modify/releases/download/latest/file_modify.jar

Usage

You can use ftm modify file time.

Decrease file last modified time

ftm -Dld [decreaded-day-number] -f [file-name]

Increase file creation time

ftm -IcH [increased-hour-number] -f [file-name]

Time Zone

File time when ftm shown is Standard UTC time format, it means if your time zone is different from UTC+0, it might not same as your true system time.

For example

If you use:

ftm -Dld 1 -f [file-name]

result will be

current last modified: 2022-01-31T14:26:53.6314489Z
modified last modified: 2022-01-30T14:26:53.6314489Z

but actually your last modified time before modified is 2022-01-31T22:26:53.6314489Z, this is because your time-zone is UTC+8, so result shown should be [true system time] - 8

Limits

Changing number each time

Same as above

Time range after modifying

From 1970-01-01 00:00:00 to current system time

License

GPL

Issue report

It's just a tool to modify file time from my impromptu idea. If there is any error, I'd like to receive advice and contribution. Thanks!